The 2009 to 2016 period was a dark age of cinema and I struggle to think of even one good American movie from that period. This slew of terrible capeshit, lazy game adaptions, and half-baked remakes of old IP is now commonly referred to as “Obamaslop.” I wouldn’t say movies have improved since then, but … Read more

There’s this very popular trope in movies and TV of a “damning” video or document that, if exposed to the public, would collapse the whole government. We see this trope over and over again. Like in the 2005 sci-fi movie Serenity (based on the TV show Firefly), the good guys “expose” the government wiping out a whole planetary colony in a botched drug trial that makes people either go catatonic or turns them into sado-masochists. The entire premise of this movie is that if people find out their government is incompetent and evil, they’ll want a different government.